![]() ![]() When he couldn't find a book on court procedure, he wrote one. ![]() Emerging a war hero, Hamilton crawled though a loophole that let him pass the New York bar examination in months, not years. With stolen British cannon, he guarded George Washington's rear as winter soldiers fled across New Jersey.Ī staff colonel at 21, he became Washington's most trusted aide, running hundreds of spies, handling prisoner exchanges, and leading the charge at the final victory at Yorktown. When revolution came, he turned his literary discussion club into an artillery company. Matriculating in premed at what is now Columbia, the future first secretary of the Treasury, inventor of the modern corporation, and founder of the Bank of New York and virtually our entire financial system flunked math. A novelist would have to strain to invent Alexander Hamilton's life.Īn illegitimate orphan of 18 when he emigrated from the Caribbean to New York City on the eve of the Revolution with a meager scholarship, he attended a classical academy in New Jersey but was rejected from what would become Princeton when he insisted on the fast track. ![]()
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